A GREAT DISCOVER 
of FOUR WORLDS 

$L TEeir Inhabitants 






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REV. CHARLES DANIEL HOLLEY 

Received the honors of Doctor of Divinity at Princeton 
University, January 28, 1908 



A GREAT DISCOVERY 
of FOUR WORLDS 

®. Their Inhabitants 




The External World 

The World of Mind Within Us 
The World of Eternity and 

World of Everlasting Punishment 



BY 



Rev. C. D. Holley, Cleveland, Ohio 



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Copyrighted April 18, 1908 
Rev. C. D. Hollv, D. D. 






This little book upon a subject that is very dear to 
me has been carefully considered and is sent forth in the 
hope that it may give comfort and edification to many. 
That the weak may be strengthened, the sorrowing con- 
soled, and the despondent encouraged to look with in- 
creased faith to that fairest of fair cities in the "better 
land" which is the home of the redeemer and the re- 
deemed. 



PREFACE. 

In giving this book to the public it is not my purpose 
to give it for mere curiosity but for a light that man may 
walk by it and not stumble in the darkness of self-conceit. 

This is a divine message the Lord has given me to 
present before the people as a looking glass. That ye may 
see and know the condition in which you stand before 
the Almighty God. 

It is my purpose to explain the mystery of the four 
worlds and their inhabitants, as the Holy Spirit has in- 
spired me to write. Hoping that it may reach the ap- 
proval of every one who is seeking wisdom and knowl- 
edge. 



INTRODUCTION. 

We have already alluded to the fact that God has 
created everything. An external world without us, and 
a world of mind within us; God gave to us in this ex- 
ternal world three lights, the sun, moon, and stars. The 
greater to rule by day, and the lesser to rule by night. 
He also gave to the world within us three lights; 
after we were created, which are faith, hope and charity. 
In the daylight of peace the world within us is lighted 
up with love, and in the benighted hours of trouble 
and the lightnings of confusion are confronting our minds 
in dark hours. The world within us is lighted up by 
faith, and hope which is the sunshine of a man's soul. 

God gave us a natural eye to see in the external 
world, and to the world within us the eye of faith. The 
purpose of the natural eye is to direct us in our actions. 
And the eye of faith in the world within us has power to 
control our minds and to show us evil that we may shun 
it before we walk into it, such as confusion, and envy, 
and strife. We also have beauty — without and taste with- 
in us. Also moral qualities in the acting of conscience to 
judge of them by means of correspondence or the com- 
munication that exists between the external world and the 
world within us. Our blessed Saviour prayed to his 
father asking him to bless him as he did before the world 
was ; according to the explanation that Christ gave Philip, 
Christ must have prayed within Himself. Because 
Christ said, "When you have seen me you have seen the 
Father." 



SUBJECT: THE FIRST WORLD. 

We will now proceed to explain the external world, 
and her inhabitants. As we are acquainted with many of 
the inhabitants of this external world. 

In creation God created the Heaven and the Earth, 
and the earth was without form and void and darkness 
was upon the face of the earth and the spirit of God 
moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, "Let 
there be light" (Gen. 1 :3. He brought forth light, the sun, 
moon and stars. The sun to rule by day, and the moon 
to rule by night, and the stars he made also. And after 
this God caused the water under the heavens, to roll to- 
gether and dry land did appear, and God called the dry 
land, earth. 

And the water that rolled together he called seas. 

God saw that it was good. And God said let the earth 
bring forth grass, the herbs yielding seeds, and the fruit 
trees after his kind, whose seed is in itself. Upon the 
earth, and after God had formed the earth and clothed 
it with the garment of grass, and herbs. He also said, 
"let the lights in the firmament be for signs, and seasons, 
and for days and years." The presentation of these lights 
have been a great wonder within man to what they rep- 
resent, and he also created great fishes and all of the 



living creatures within the waters. He brought forth 
the fowls of the air, beast of the earth, that this external 
world might be inhabited. The wonderful herbs that 
bring forth such sweet blossoms such as the Magnolia, 
the Rose of Sharon, Lily of the Valley, and many more 
wonderful plants that afford blossom in wonderful order. 
The odor from these wonderful flowers is very sweet to 
the creature here upon this earth, that has sense of 
smelling. The air also carries its odor for miles and as 
we breath the air seems to be so delicious and we inhale 
the odor. 

God gave the little bird a talent to sing and chirp. 
The little bee to hum, and make honey. And to the larger 
beast God gave them an instrument of knowledge so that 
they may know that man is their superior. And after 
God had made the lights, grass, herbs, and beasts of 
many kinds, the inhabitants of the earth were not yet 
complete. There was still something lacking before God's 
creation would be complete. Then Jehovah spoke and said, 
let us make man in our image and likeness and let them 
have dominion over all creeping things, in this external 
world. So God made man in his own image and likeness, 
made he them, male and female. And every plant of the 
field before it was in the earth and every herb of the 
field before it grew for the Lord had not caused it to rain 
upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground. 



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(Gen. 2 :5.) But there went up a mist from the earth and 
watered the whole face of the ground (Gen. 2:6.) And 
the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the earth 
and breathed into him the breath of life and man became 
a living soul. (Gen. 2:7.) As God gave life to the ex- 
ternal things of this world, he also gave eternal life into 
the world within. If the creator should be cut off from 
the creatures of this external world they would fail to ex- 
ist any longer. The breath that was breathed into the 
nostrils of man, is that part of life that exists in the world 
within that never dies an external death. 

And the Lord planted a tree in Eden and he put the 
man whom he had formed therein. And out of the ground 
made the Lord to grow every tree that is pleasant to the 
sight and good for food. The tree of life also in the 
midst of the °- a rden. And the tree of good and evil, Gen. 
2 : 8, and now we find that this external world is inhabited 
with everything necessary to inhabit a material universe. 
It is faith, hope, and charity, that God gave man. Caused 
man to be possessed with will power, intellect and sensi- 
bility. So he might discover many siens and wonders, 
of this material universe and also things that are pertain- 
ing to the world within us that are not visible to the 
natural eye. If it were not for these three great attributes 
man would be just the same as any other animal. Not 
seeing any further than the natural eye could behold in 




is external world. He would not have the power to 
discover other worlds. I do not doubt but that there are 
thousands of people that have never discoverd another 
world but the world visible to the natural eye. The 
reasons are, there are people that have faith in nothing, 
or no one but themselves at all and by man not having 
power within himself, and depends upon himself alone. 
That man cannot discover any other world but the world 
that is visible to his natural eve because he has shut off 
the sunlight of hope which lights upon the world within 
him and that causes the world within to be dark and 
without li^ht. 

The man that is self-conceited cannot see the great 
discoveries of the worlds that are invisible to the natural 
eye. Because the man has not faith, hope and charity 
for anything but the natural things, such as he can see 
with the natural eye. Christ said "Blessed is -he thut 
believeth before he seeth." 

SUBJECT THE WORLD OF MIND WITHIN US. 

The question has often been asked, Is there any good 
reason for believing in the existing of Mind or Soul of 
man as something separate from the body? Materialistic 
philosophy answers the question in the negative. It as- 
serts that there is nothing in this Universe but matter. 
And that which we call soul, spirit and mind is perhaps 



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some function of matter. The main argument for this 
doctrine is as follows: (1) The soul is connected with 
a body. (2) It is developed with the body. (4) And 
finally we know nothing about soul while we have a defi- 
nite knowledge about matter. 

In reply to these arguments we might answer that 
the body is a condition for the soul and that the latter is 
dependent to a certain extent on the former. But I find 
many conclusive reasons. That it is to be a separate ex- 
istence. While we know nothing about the soul except 
its operation we still know quite as much about it as we 
know about the body. The only intelligence we have con- 
cerning the latter except the fact of its existence is the 
qualities which appeal to several senses. The same is 
true concerning the mind. The knowledge of substance 
in both cases comes to us by the very constitution of the 
mind itself. We know that such substances exist. 
As soon as we recognize the qualities it appears to be 
in both the same. Our inner sense apprehends many 
operations constituting mental phenomena. And we 
atone and necessarily know that these phenomena have a 
base, a substance just as we perceive certain qualities 
of matter. We know more directly about the 
soul than we do about the other. It is the soul since the 
inner sense gives us phenomena thus directly. While in 
the case dealing with matter, the inner sense must first be 



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cognizant of sensation befor_e perception can appre- 
hend any external phenomena. 

The two sets of phenomena are radically different in 
many respects in their combinations, in that those of mat- 
ter are mainly properties and qualities, while those of the 
soul are energies and activities. 

The soul of a man distinguishes itself from matter. 
The soul knows as certainly as it knows anything that 
the perceiving agent is not the same as a material object 

which it perceives. The soul also resists the forces and 
movements of its own body and by so doing distinguishes 
itself from that which it resists. One of the principle 
reasons why we know less about the soul, or character 
of the soul than we know about matter notwithstanding 
the fact that the former lies proximate to the conscious 
while the latter does not, is that the action or operation 
or any soul can be observed by one person, and that one 
the subject of its operation. While material facts a;id 
qualities can be perceived by several at the same time. 

This is teaching of philosophy or truth. While it 
states that I believe all minds will be clear and agree r o 
the fact. In man the body is a condition for the soul to 
exist in. The various parts of the body are instruments or 
means for the operation of the soul. The brain, the 
nerves, the several senses, and everything necessary to 
cause a development of mind. The soul does not depend 



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necessarily upon the mind, the soul does not depend upon 
the body, but the body cannot exist without the soul. 

There are three forms of manifestation : Intellect, 
sensibility, and the .will. These derive from the power of 
faith, hope and charity. That causes these great mem- 
bers of the world within us to become sensitive. It is 
the soul that lives in the world within, that knows. 

The world within us has sensitive perception, various 
forms of activities. Among the inhabitants of the world 
within, joy, pleasure, pain, hope, sorrow, anger. The in- 
habitants of the world within are -invisible to the natural 
eye ; but can be seen and also surveyed by the eye of faith. 

Sir William Hamilton goes further and asserts that 
we are not only conscious of the things of the external 
world, but we are also conscious of the things known 
within us as well as of the fact of knowing them, and we 
know for ourselves that the soul and mind exist because 
we have counseled with the different members of the 
world within. Mind by this we see by the conversations 
that the soul has with the inhabitants of the body the 
mind of a man can't be seen. Neither can the inhabitants 
of the world within mind be seen with the natural eye. 
A world as I foresaid is an unlimited space inhabited with 
living creatures and our mind is unlimited and it is in- 
habited with the livening creatures of life and its at- 
tributes. The chief rulers of the inhabitants are faith, 






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hope and charity. Intellect, will power, and sensibility, 
these have controling power over the world, within us, 
with the assistance of the power of the soul. When the 
inhabitants of the world of mind within us were created 
they were all created in union, one with another, just as 
the living inhabitants of this external world were. 
Both classes were created; one visible and the other in- 
visible. The mind, soul, spirit and life are all living 
qualities and they exist within us ; at some times the ef- 
fects from their existence and their work are made mani- 
fest before this natural eye by the effect of certain 
changes. 

Sir William Herschel informs us that when viewing 
a certain portion of the Milky Way in the course of seven 
minutes, more than fifty thousand stars pass across the 
field of his telescope, and it has been calculated that 
within the range of such an instrument applied to all 
the different portions of the firmament more than eighty 
millions of stars would be rendered visible here. Then 
within the limits of that circle which human vision has 
explored in the world of mind, perceives not merely 
eighty millions of worlds, but at least thirty times that 
number. For every star considered as a sun may be con- 
ceived to be surrounded by at least thirty planetary 
globes. So the visible system of the universe may be 
stated at the lowest computation within our minds, its 



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vast circumference 2,400,000,000 of worlds. This celestial 
scene in the world of mind presents an idea so august and 
overwhelming that the mind of man is confounded and 
shrinks back at the attempt of a different conception of 
a multitude and magnitude so far beyond the limits of 
its ordinary excursions. 

If we cannot form an adequate idea of the magnitude, 
the variety and economy of one world, how can we form 
a just conception of thousands. If a single million of 
objects of any description presents an image too vast and 
complex to be taken in at one grasp how shall we ever 
attempt to comprehend so vast a number as two bil- 
lion four hundred millions of worlds. None but the 
inhabitants of the world of eternal mind, which counts 
the number of the stars, which calls them from nothing 
into existence, and arranges them in their respective 
places they occupy. And whoes eyes run to and fro 
through the unlimited extent of the world .of mind, that 
are created within us, can form a clear and comprehensive 
conception of the number, the order and the economy of 
nature. 

But here even the very feeblest obscurity of our con- 
ception tends to throw a radiance on the subject we are 
attempting to illustrate. The magnitude and incompre- 
hensiveness of the object shows us diversified views of the 
divine glory remains to be displayed. 






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What an infinite variety of sublime scenes may be 
afforded for the inhabitants of the world of mind to expati- 
ate upon, and what rapturous train of thought ever vari- 
ous and ever new may succeed each other without in- 
terruption throughout and with unlimited duration. Let 
us now endeavor to analyze some of the objects that are 
presented. By wisdom to the great assembly of system of 
the world within us which lies within the sphere of human 
vision in the formation of which infinite wisdom and 
goodness have been employed and consequently they 
must exhibit scenes of sublimity of exquisite contrivance 
worthy of the contemplation of every rational being. 

If this earth which is the abode of apostate man, and 
a scene of moral depravity, and which here and there has 
the appearance of being the ruins of a former world, pre- 
sents the variegated prospect of lofty mountains, romantic 
dells, and fertile plains, verdant landscapes, and adorned 
with fruits and flowers, and a thousand other beautiful 
things that are strewn over the face of nations. How 
grand and magnificent a scenery may we suppose must be 
presented to the view of the inhabitants in the world of 
mind within us, where the rain storms, and the cold 
chilly wind of this external world have never entered to 
beat and blow down and derange the mighty works of the 
great creator. Where love to the supreme, and to one 
another fires the bosom of all the inhabitants within us 



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and produces a rapturous exultation and an incessant 
adoration of the source of happiness in the world in mind. 
In such worlds we may justly conceive that the sensate 
enjoyments and the objects of beauty and grandeur which 
are displayed to their views as far exceeds the scenery 
and enjoyment of this external world as their moral qual- 
ities excel the qualities of things in this outer world. 
In the next place it is highly reasonable to believe that 
an infinite diversity of scenery exists throughout the 
world within us which may be composed of mind. 

There appear to be certain laws and phenomena 
which are common to all of the system which exists in 
the limits of the human vision in the inward world. But 
since we are confined to a small corner of the universe of 
God and surrounded by immeasurable voids of space which 
intervenes between the habitation of the world of mind 
within us and the cellest;ial worlds through which no 
human power can enable us to penetrate, we must remain 
ignorant of the nature and economy of those intellectual 
beings until our souls take their flight from these taber- 
nacles of clay, to join their kindred spirits in the invisible 
world. While we remain in our sublime mansions, our in- 
vestigation into the world of mind must therefore of neces- 
sity be confined to the nature and attributes of the uncre- 
ated spirits and to the inhabitaats of our own mind, and 
those of sensitive beings which we are surrounded. These 






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faculties as they constitute the instruments by which all 
knowledge, both human and divine, is acquired has em- 
ployed the attention of many. In every age has been the 
theme of many subtile and ingenious speculations and they 
doubtless have formed an interesting subject of investi- 
gation to many people of intellect. But of all the views 
we can take of the world of mind, the moral relation of 
intelligent beings, and the laws founded on these relations 
are topics by far more interesting and important. This 
subject may be treated in a more definite manner than 
the theories which have been formed respecting the na- 
ture and operation of the inhabitants of the world of 
mind. Illustrations leveled to every capacity and which 
come home to every bosom, may be derived both from 
reason and experience from the annals of history, and the 
reward of revelation it is not involved in the same diffi- 
culties and obscurity which have perplexed philosophy of 
intellect, and there are certain principles which may be 
traced in relation to this subject which apply to all the 
rational intelligent, that God has formed however diversi- 
fied in the respect of, the regions of the universe which 
they occupy, and in the extent of their intelligence above 
all this subject it more intimately connects with the pres- 
ent and future happiness of man than any other that comes 
within the range of human investigation, and therefore 
forms a permanent and legitimate branch of what may be 
termed truth of religion. 



shall content myself with stating the following il- 
lustration : We dwell in an obscure corner of God's em- 
pire, but the light of modern science has shown us that 
worlds a thousand times larger than this external world 
of ours, and adorned with more refulgent splendor, than 
exists within this world in which we live. It also has been 
unfolded to us views of other systems dispersed through- 
out the voids of space immeasurable, and in such vast 
profusions that our minds are unable to prasp their num- 
bers and their magnitude. 

A revelation leads us to conclude that all of these 
worlds are a system adorned with a display of Divine 
wisdom and peopled within, by rational inhabitants. The 
human mind after it has recovered notice of such stu- 
pendous scenes naturally longs for a nearer and more in- 
timate inspection of the grandeur and economy of those 
distant provinces of the Creator's empire, and is apt to 
imagine that they would never weary, but would feel un- 
mingled joy while it winged its flight from one magnifi- 
cent scene. of creation to another. But although the in- 
habitants of our world were divested of the qualities of 
gravitation, and endowed with power of rapid motion 
adequate to carry him along to the suburbs of creation, 
and permitted by his Creator to survey all the wonders 
of the universe ; if a principle of love and kindly affection 
towards fellow intelligents did not animate his mind 



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range, and revenge, pride, and ambition, hatred and envy 
ever incessantly rankle in his heart, he could feel no trans- 
porting emotions, nor taste the sweet enjoyments. This 
great world of mind through which man would be trans- 
ported into a spacious hell ; its beauties and its sublimities 
could not prevent misery from taking possession of the 
soul in the world within us and at every stage of his ex- 
cursions he could not fail to meet with indications of his 
Creator's frown. For it appears to us from reason and ex- 
perience as well as from the dictates of revelations an 
absolute impossibility of enjoying happiness so long as 
malevolent affections retain their ascendency in that of 
moral intelligence in whatever region of universial nature 
his residence may be found. But remember all viewo are 
taken from the world of mind within us. 

We can see the external world with our natural eye 
by the great lights of the firmament giving great light, 
and behold the things within this world. We have now 
described to you the wonderful inhabitants of this ex- 
ternal world. Now by the teaching of the Holy Spirit 
we will explain tc you the inhabitants of the world within. 
This world is called a corresponding- w r orld and it also is 
inhabited as I foresaid. God gave this external world 
three lights and also gave three great lights to the world 
within us. 

Faith, hope and charity, without these three we 



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would fail to be in the image and likeness of God. Man 
was created in the image and likeness of God. We don't 
mean that God was a physical being. We must not con 1 
sider Christ to have a great outward form. "In the like-, 
ness and image" refers to the sentimnts, and principles, 
attributes or passions that move the "soul in the inward 
world. 

God has endowed man with extraordinary power in 
fact, man was created a little God. When God breathed 
into the inanimate clay he filled man with those passions 
that elevated him so much higher than any other animals 
and creatures that it gave him controlling power. We 
find those passions and sentiments are the pricipal parts 
that have the controlling power of the world within us. 
Without these great principles the inward world would 
be in darkness. It was in accordance with these virtues 
that the world within us is to be measured ; it is the prin- 
ciple in the human heart that binds the human family 
together. It is the development of the inhabitant of the 
world within us that makes us an image of ; God. It is 
the act of truthfulness, righteousness and love, that 
brings man in communication with the angels of God. 

THE EMOTION OF THE WORLD WITHIN US. 

It is impossible for man to move and exist and also 
animals to move and creep without assistance from the 



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Almighty God. Let us see, is not man a creature of faith? 
Does not' the very happiness of his existence depend on 
faith? Do not the creatures of the world within us 
move and exist by faith, and depend upon it only? 

Confidence is the lubricating- element that keeps the 
vast social machinery of the world within us in motion. 
Confidence is the chief operator of the world within us 
and when we lose all confidence the inhabitants of the 
world within us will fail to exist. 

What know ye not that your bodies is the temple 
of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, 
and ye are not your own. for ye are bought with a price, 
therefore glorify God in your body and in your Spirit 
which are God's. I. Cor. 6:19-20. So we learn from 
these words that the inward part of man is spiritually 
inhabited. We learn from the scriptures that in this 
external w r orld God planted in the garden of Eden a tree 
of life, a tree of knowledge, of good and evil. Man could 
choose between either one. So it is in the world within 
us. when God created man he planted within him a tree 
of life and gave him knowledge to understand His com- 
mand. That he may not do anything that would violate 
the laws of God. God told him that if he violated His 
law, he would surely die. At this time God's spirit had 
a free access to the world within man. Man was made 
for the glory of God. At the moment that man violated 



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the laws of God, his heart was closed against God's 
spirit, because the spiritual light was cut off from the 
soul. God says, "my spirit shall not dwell in an unclean 
temple. Behold I stand at the door and knock desiring 
to enter." Faith is a gift from heaven, even when man 
has met with failures, and disasters, he then takes the 
eye of faith and looks into the world within and he finds 
confidence, to make a new venture. What great deeds 
have men accomplished when their souls have been filled 
with confidence. The world within us is invisible to the 
natural eye, but is visible to faith, hope, and charity, 
because their works are in the world within us. 

Man was made for an abiding place for the^ Holy 
Spirit, and when love is in, God is in, because He is 
love. When man gains faith it causes love to grow 
withtin. There must be a world within us, because there 
are invisible inhabitants within us that councils with 
us daily. The Apostle Paul says, "when this earthly 
tabernacle is dissolved we have another building, not 
made with hands, but eternal in the Heavens. And we 
know by this statement that our 'bodies are spiritually 
inhabited. The body of a man is just the same to the 
soul of man as the external world is to the body of man. 
Just as our bodies are cared for with the things of this 
earth, so it is with the soul of a man. No man can live 
without hope because it is the spark of life. It is the 



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abundant presence of this heavenly light that causes the 
communication of the inhabitant of the world within 
us with the angelic host. When we have lost .all hope 
we have no way to converse with angels. Without hope 
the world within us is in utter darkness. 

It is being shut off from God's sunlight that makes 
hell so unbearable. The angels and attributes that rules 
and controls the world within us, possess power that 
cannot be conceived by those who know not the spiritual 
world. Those who are not acquainted with the spiritual 
power suppose that the angels cannot have any power 
over the world within man. 

It h^s beeen proven to me by actual experience that 
man cannot move one step without the influence of 
heaven. It has been proven by the word of God, for the 
prayers that God will send his angels to lead us, to teach 
and inspire us. These observations are made that it 
may be known what power the angels exercise within us. 

THE POWER OF THE SPIRITUAL INHABI- 
TANTS WITHIN US. 

The angels that control the world within us are so 
great and have so much power that were I to aduce all 
that I have seen by the eye of faith, it would seem in- 
credible. Since man exercises the divine audiences 
that God gave, if anything of the world within us offers 



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resistance it oug4it to be removed because of its con- 
tradiction to divine order. They cast out and overturn 
all stumbling blocks by a mere effort of the will. Be- 
cause God said, my kingdom shall be set up in the hearts 
of man. Therefore we know that man must have a 
world within him because as we have just stated God 
must set His kingdom in the hearts of man. 

The bible teaches us that our God is higher than the 
external world. Thus we know that the inward part of 
man is inhabited, since the Spirit of God dwells within us. 

We find in this external world matter and provision 
for man to subsist upon, so by faith the Holy Spirit 
gives us life, and the fountain of love flows freely'from the 
throne of God. And so the invisible inhabitants live and 
subsist upon the food that is given by the Holy Spirit. 

The Spirits within us converse more intelligently 
than man does because their conversations are directed by 
God. 

In the world within us all of the invisible spirits have 
the same speech, they all understand the working of one 
another. The angel that governs the world within man 
knows what ruling effection every one has. Every one 
has various affections, one controls the state of gladness, 
another grief, another mildness and mercy, another sin- 
cerity and truth, another love and charity, another in the 
pursuit of honor and glory and so on. But the ruling af- 



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ie'vtion of love is in them all. Therefore the wiser angel 
who attends chiefly to the transaction of the spiritual 
business within man has a conversation of love. %The lan- 
guage of angels in the world within us has nothing in 
common as human language, exceptsome particular word 
that derived their sound from particular affections. 

I believe that science will bear out the great dis- 
covery of the world within man. Dr. Steele says : "The 
inner sense gives us cognition of the world of matter, the 
later of the world of mind/' One of the greatest ques- 
tions* of psychology is, "How does the soul come in com- 
munication with the oxiter world ?" Like most other sub- 
jects pertaining to our constitution and relation it is en- 
volved in more or less of mystery under present human 
limitations, and will never be absolutely cleared up. 

Man was created as a world for the Son of God to live 
in. "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the moun- 
tain to be tempted by the devil, and when he had fasted 
forty days and nights, he was afterwards hungered ; and 
when the tempter came to Him he said, if thou be the 
Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 
But Jesus answered and said, man shall not live by bread 
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the 
mouth of God.'' Matt. 4: 1-11. The mortal bodv was not 
the Savior, but just the building in which the Son of God 
lived while on earth. Christ could have set upon the 



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thrones of this earth if he had so desired, for he had only, 
to speak, and it would be so. 

When Jesus' body was hung up on the cross, the 
old body of human flesh was hanging upon the tree and 
the flesh was bruised, and on both sides of him there were 
two thieves, one representing a humble child of God in 
humiliation, and the other representing the devil trying 
to seek and understand the mysteries of God. 

The devil's representative looked at the body in 
which Jesus was, and said: "If thou be the son of God, 
save thyself and come down from the cross." .And there 
was a thief on the other side that was a representative of 
obedience. And he said: "Lord, remember me." And 
Christ spoke and said : "This day thou shalt be with me 
in paradise." And Christ asked the Father to forgive all 
of his accusers, for they knew not what they were doing, 
and immediately when Christ had finished and said, "It 
is finished." 

The Son of God stepped out of the mortal frame and 
went into counsel with death, and while he was wrestling 
with death his body, which he had occupied, was laid in 
the grave uninhabited. He moved out of the body in 
pursuit of death and hell. The body was only stored away 
for a few days while he conquered death, gained the vic- 
tory of the grave, and went down and controlled hell and 
demanded the keys ; then Christ came back and walked 



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in the form of man, and rose as though He were dead. 
Christ was not dead, but he stepped out of the body, and 
the body had no power to act of itself because Christ 
says, "I am the living bread that come down from 
heaven/' and we plainly see when God withdraws the 
bread of life from us. We at that moment fail to exist, 
because it is the life that God gives us that causes us to 
exist. 

And after He had rose and met His disciples, He 
told them that He had all power in His own hand, both 
of death, hell and the grave. 

The life of a man is that part within him that never 
dies, always lives, let it be in heaven or hell — it w r ill never 
die. You may destroy the body of man in which it dwells, 
but you cannot destroy the life, because it is controlled 
by God. God has angels as life preservers flying around 
us day and night, watching and waiting, so if the world 
in which the invisible spirits live gets destroyed they will 
take charge of the soul or life and bear it away in the 
presence of the Father that gave it. So there is no way 
in which man can destroy the soul of man. It has been 
tried thousands of times, but all that has been done was 
just to destroy the body, and the soul or life leaped out 
to another world. 



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RENEWING THE WORLD WITHIN US BY RE- 
GENERATION. 

Regeneration essential to salvation. Except a man be 
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. John 3 : 3. 

Is regeneration essential to salvation? This question 
is definitely settled by our Lord Himself in His conver- 
sation with Nicodemus. In no abstract way could the 
necessity of the new birth have been forcibly taught. 
This man was well versed in the law, and was of great 
service to his class of people, he had many requirements 
that would well fit him for the kingdom of God. But as 
God had not respect unto Cain and his alter ladened with 
flowers, and enriched with the best products on earth, so 
our Lord could not accept the righteousness of Nicode- 
mus, though none of Israel were more worthy than he, 
as fitting him to be a subject of the spiritual kingdom 
which Christ came to establish. Canon Farrar suggested 
that the title in verse 10 "Master of Israel'' might signify 
his rank as teacher or wise men. The third member of the 
Sanhedrin it is evident was a man of culture, refinement 
and of zeal for the law. A religious man in his convoca- 
tion and honest in his desire to do right. It would seem 
as if all meritorious qualification met in him, and yet over 
against them all the unseen hand had written "thou art 
weighed in the balance and found wanting 1 ." Jesus 



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sweeps away with a breath all hope of fitness for the 
Kingdom of Heaven by natural birth or natural develop- 
ment, saying "except a man be born again, he cannot see 
the Kingdom of God." 

The Kingdom of God does not mean the eternal 
Heaven, yet it is the heavenly ruling within man as it 
would be a visible ruling on earth with heaven's atmos- 
phere, and laws, and requirements for citizenship. 

It is the spiritual kingdom begun here within us 
which shall be transformed and continued in that eternal 
sphere ; and as our Lord used the phrase it is equivalent 
to saying a man must be born again to enter heaven, 
though the phrase may be rendered again as in the mar- 
gin, "born from above." 

Nicodemus, with perhaps assumed ignorance asked, 
"how can he enter the second time into his mother's womb 
and be born again." The expression is one which denotes 
a change which is radical and fundamental, and implies 
that a man needs to be renewed in the very source of his 
being. That he must become a new creature within. 
Dean Alfred says, it is not learning but life that is wanted 
for the Messiah's Kingdom. And life began with birth. 

We shall discuss what the great change is further on 
in saying that in talking to a man of ability and exalted 
rank as was Nicodemus, Jesus teaches us the absolute 
necessity of the new birth. But in the phrase, "except a 



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man," he embraces the noble as well as the less worthy. 
This statement should have great bearing upon those that 
have a tendency to self righteousness. Jesus says further 
on "that which is born of the flesh is flesh/' It can never 
become spirit. It can never be other than flesh, with its 
sin and decay. Only that which is born of the spirit is 
spirit, and that birth of the spirit is regeneration. There 
is force also in the word "see" as here used, for the old 
nature is blind and cannot disern the spiritual things. 
Regeneration, or the new birth is essential to salvation. 
We may here define regeneration as an act of God by 
which, through the. Gospel as a means, the governing dis- 
position of the Soul is made holy. It brings about an en- 
tire change of character. The scriptures are very full and 
explicit on this point. To the objection offered b} r Nico- 
demus, Christ replies, "except a man be born of water and 
of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." 
It would seem that there was a little surprise expressed 
that a ruler of the Jews should not be more in touch with 
the real truth of the Scriptures. 

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the child- 
ren of men to see if any could be found worthy, but not 
one was found. Psa. 14:2-3. Thus the condition of the 
nature of man is made very clear. In Ezekiel there is 
direct teaching to this effect, "Make you a new heart and 
a new spirit for why will you die; O house of Israel. A 



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new heart also will I give you, and a new Spirit will I 
put within you." Ez. 18:31. 34:36; as also in David's 
prayer, ''Create within me a new heart, oh God, and re- 
new within me a right spirit." Psa. 51 : 10. The Apostle 
to the Gentiles sets at naught all the claims of the Jews 
as children of God. 

They were wont to boast of their descendant from 
Abraham, but the Apostle says, "In Christ Jesus neither 
circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but 
a new creation." Ga 16 : 15. "If any man be in Christ he 
is a new creature and old things are passed away ; behold 
all things are become new. 2 Cor. 5 : 17. 

The uniform testimony of the inspired writers is that 
by nature our state is one of irrecoverable ruin. The car- 
nal mind is emnity toward God, for it is not subject to the 
laws of God; neither can it be. Romans 8:7. Further- 
more man's condition is not only one of native ruin, but 
also of native helplessness, so far as remedying the fatal 
defect. Can the ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard 
his spots? Then may ye also do good who are accus- 
tomed to do evil? Jer. 13:23. There is no promise of 
blessedness in the future world to the unregenerated. 
Jesus says : Many will say unto me in that day, Lord 
have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast 
out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful things? 
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. 



.Vicr.&rt iron; me, ye that work eniquity. Matt. 7 : 21-23. 

The most terrible threatening^ are spoken concern- 
ing such as remain in their sins. How false are the hope 
of the ungodly. God is unchangeable. The day of reck- 
oning will find him as determined to punish those who die 
in their sins as when He uttered the proclamation of 
wrath. Christ said, "except a man be born again he can- 
not enter the kingdom of heaven." That shows us plainly 
that just as soon as a man renounces self, and feels the 
need of a savior, he is accepted, and washed in the blood 
of Christ and made ready- for the Kingdom. 

A GREAT BAPTISM IN THE WORLD WITHIN US. 

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance ; 
but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose 
shoes I am not worthy to bear. He shall baptize you with 
the Holy Ghost and with fire. Matt. 3: 11. The words 
spoken by John the Baptist teaches us that his baptism 
was unto repentance, and he only performed the outward 
act upon the body of man in this world, as a typifying 
evidence showing how the Holy Ghost baptizes in the 
world with us. And He shall baptize you with the Holy 
Ghost and with fire. The word baptize means emersion, 
and emersion means to be dipped — ^buried. Every one 
that has been born again, has had experience of the bap- 
tism of Jesus Christ. As this body was emersed in water, 



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our soul was emersed in the blood and spirit of Jesus in 
the world within us. 

John the Baptist baptized in the river of Jordan, but 
Jesus Christ baptized the souls of men in the river of love, 
and that makes man a new creature, because his sins have 
been washed away. John did not use the term sprinkle, 
but he used these words, "He shall baptize you with the 
Holy Ghost and with fire." Jesus, when He was baptized 
went up straightway out of the water, and lo ! the heaven 
were opened unto Him and He saw the spirit of God des- 
cending like a dove and lighting upon Him and lo, a voice 
from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son in whom I 
am well pleased." And so it is with the child of God, who 

has taken on Christ by baptism. He is well pleased with 

us. 

God spake to Isaiah and said, "When the Lord shall 

have w^ashed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and 
shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst 
thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of 
judgment and by the spirit of burning." Isa. 4:4. By 
this statement we know that there are great works per- 
formed within us by the Holy Ghost. By the power of 

the Son of God. God works upon the mind and soul of a 
man only. 

PATIENCE. 

Have patience with me and I will pay thee all. Matt. 
18 : 26-29. 



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The question has often been asked, What does patience 
mean? Webster gives this definition. "The suffering of 
affliction, pain, calamity, provocation and other evils. 
Also the act or quality of waiting long for justice." Have 
patience and I will pay thee all. This expression was 
force from a servant that was unable to meet the demand 
of his Lord. In one instance patience prevailed. In the 
other case it was rejected. Nevertheless he that possesses 
the great virtue patience, can conquer his enemies, and 
rear up a monument that will not dissolve but endure 
throughout eternity. Job possessed great patience. 
Satan the accusing angel, suggested the doubt. "Doth 
Job fear God for ought?' 1 The devil means to say that if 
the benediction of this life were taken from Job, that he 
would curse God to His face. Almighty God gave the 
devil the power to make this trial on the servant Job. 
He destroys Job's property, then his children, then he was 
afflicted with one of the most terrible diseases of the East 
from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. Yet 
he had patience. Job's wife breaks down and begs him 
to curse God and die. Job murmurs not, but continues 
steadfast. He rejects his wife's suggestion, and answers 
calmly, "What, shall we receive good at the hand of the 
Lord and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job sin- 
ned not with his lips but in all of his trials he continued 
in patience and permanently left on record the burning 
words of divine inspiration. 



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If a man die shall he live again? "All the days of 
my appointed time will I wait until my change come." 
Joseph had patience when sold into the land of Egypt. 
He waited patiently on the Lord and he was delivered 
and became the greatest ruler of the world. All by being 
patient. David became King of Israel by his great 
patience. By patience Noah, after one hundred years of 
work, provided the ark and preserved the nations of the 
earth, after forty days and nights of deluge. 

Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of 
bondage and was their leader for forty years. Mary, the 
mother of Christ, showed her patience when approached 
by Elizabeth, her cousin, relative to the birth of Christ, 
"behold the hand of the Lord." 

The apostle Paul had patience. While preaching the 
Gospel of Jesus Christ he was cast into prison, beaten and 
thrown outside the gates of the city for dead. Yet his 
patience was firm until the close of life, here find his cry- 
ing out in those sublime words, "none of these things 
move me." John Knox shook Scotland by his persever- 
ance, until Queen Mary said that she feared John Knox 
more than all the opposing armies. Columbus discovered 
this great country after much patience. Martin Luther 
the humble monk moved the entire globe through the 
great reformation, by his patience and extreme endurance. 



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SUBJECT. WHAT CONSTITUTES CHRISTIAN 

BAPTISM. 

Baptism is generally acknowledged by all sects. 
When a poor soul is converted he desires to become a 
child of God — he meets an obstacle. What is '"baptize"? 
What does it mean? Much water is necessary. "Both" 
went into the water. Every evidence has its weight, 
buried, in baptism, emersion is baptism. 

THE WORDS OF CHRIST IN THE GREAT COM- 
MISSION. 

Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them 
in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the 
Holy Ghost. (Matt. 28:19. 

Baptism is generally acknowledged by all sects. All 
christian denominations, with a few exceptions acknow- 
ledge baptism. All use or pretend to use the same for- 
mula found in Matt. 28 : 19. With all th@ existing shades 
of belief it is almost impossible to form a satisfactory 
opinion, no matter how much the different sects may dif- 
fer from one another. Each one advances truths that, of 
course, have a certain amount of plausibility in it that 
entitles it to a hearing. The difference is so very radical 
that it seems almost an impossibility for all to be right. 
Then where shall we go to have the truth established be- 
yond a doubt. They all seem to be equally an earnest 



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advocate of different forms. One advocates sprinkling, 
another pouring, and still another emersion, as the only 
true mode of baptism. And even the emersionists have 
a difference, while one class have but one action, another 
claims three actions to be the apostolic mode. Again 
there are others who claim that no outward ordinance is 
necessary. In fact they entirely cancel all rites and cere- 
monies in ordinances. Then the strangest thing in all is 
that all take the same book as their instructor in the 
religious life. I don't want to cross swords with any 
christian body that may differ with us, neither do I desire 
to unchristianize those who do not observe the christian 
rites just as Jesus taught it. I am anxious to appear be- 
fore the world in the proper light. Our great claim that 
these ordinances were instituted for the purpose of bene- 
fiting the soul, and our present object is to bring out the 
design of these outward forms. Investigation is the only 
way by w T hich we can arrive at the truth. We want no 
guide nor reference but the Bible. In it we will obtain 
all information and facts that will lead us to the mind of 
God. We claim no superior knowledge, but appeal mere- 
ly to the common sense of people, presuming that they 
have an earnest desire to do the will of God. The object 
of this true doctrine' is not to tear down, but rather to 
build up a structure that will stand the test of time and 
eternity. A poor soul converted. Let us suppose then 



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the case of one who is converted and anxious to enter the 
ark of safety, where the storms of eternity can never 
harm him. The person is not only convicted but con- 
verted. That is, he is convinced that a worldly selfish 
life is in direct opposition to the will of God, and having 
truly repented of former misdeeds, he is not only sorry, 
but he has received a sufficient amount^of the spirit of 
holiness to make him willing to leave the broad road of 
sin and enter by the straight gate into the narrow way 
that leads to life eternal. This, of course, will bring about 
a complete change of life. This is true repentance. Re- 
pentance in its simplest and most primitive definition 
means nothing but a change of mind. But a change of 
mind so radical that a complete change of living is the 
result.. 

DESIRING TO BECOME A CHILD OF GOD. 

This poor earnest soul desires to become a child of 
God. Knowing that repentance, faith and baptism are 
necessary to salvation he starts out to accomplish these. 
Repentance, we will suppose has already been accom- 
plished. He believes with all his heart in the Saviour of 
mankind, and is anxious to become his true follower. 
Here then at the threshold of his christian life he meets 
with an obstacle wfien he comes to baptism ; every one 
has a different opinion. The claims of each seem to be 



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equally convincing. Now what is the poor soul to do? 
There is only one course open to him and that is, to ap- 
peal to the Bible. Meets an obstacle in the first place 
"baptize" is not an English word ; that is we never use it 
except in a religious sense. Then if we are unacquainted 
with the Greek, we are entirely at the mercies of the 
scholars that are, and they differ very much materially, 
but we have no other course open to us than to appeal 
to the Bible itself. The word "baptize" is but the Greek 
word anglicized, that is, put into an English form. The 
word is never used in a common way like any other 
word. We must keep in mind that when Jesus lived and 
the Apostles wrote, Greek was the leading language of 
the civilized world. We must not forget this. The Lord 
Jesus Christ did not use language that was beyond the 
comprehension of the people to whom he talked. To do 
so would be unreasonable and the height of folly. Then 
take it for granted that the people understood the ex- 
pressions He made use, and those who were willing con- 
formed to the command. Surely one claiming to be the 
Son of God and establishing that claim with the most 
astonishing miracles the world ever beheld ; surely such 
a one denying and sacrificing himself as Jesus did would 
not trifle with the feeling of the human family, whom he 
came to save. We notice also how positive and emphatic 
he was in his assertion and how explicit in the issue of 



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His command. Over and over again He repeated the 
same requirements, threatening terrible woes upon the 
heedless and disobedient. It is impossible that such a 
person as the Bible represents the Lord Jesus Christ to 
be would speak unmeaningly. Not one word do we read 
that the matter of baptism is an optional one on the part 
of the applicant. The whole difficulty rises out of the 
different opinions concerning the meaning of the Greek 
word. Words are the means by which we make ourselves 
understood. Therefore when the Lord used the words of 
the language in common use they meant something. 
Jesus in ushering in a new dispensation did not want to 
mystify. There surely was but one meaning to the word 
or there would have been some disputation. But we hear 
of no division in the early church concerning the .mode of 
baptism. They were a unit in those days ; they under- 
stood the meaning of the word and so obeyed it. One 
of the plainest proofs that the people were united on the 
subject of baptism is that it was spoken of in the briefest 
manner possible, as if the word itself were so plain that 
the people needed no enlightenment as to how the ordin- 
ance of baptism was to be administered. Yet the record 
of the church during and immediately after the life of 
Jesus gives certain expressions that will lead us in the 
right way during our investigation. Why is baptizo not 
translated? At the very beginning of our investigation 



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the question presents itself. Why did not the translators 
translate the word baptizo, as they did all other words? 
To answer this intelligently we must appeal to some few 
facts connected with the history of the translating of the 
Bible. When King James sanctioned the new translation, 
known as the authorized version, he instructed the trans- 
lators that certain eccleastical words were not to be in- 
terfered with, but should be allowed to remain just as 
they were. At the time, unfortunately, "baptize" was 
one of these words that the translators were instructed 
not to touch. 

What does it mean? The person who is struggling 
between the different practices of baptism by the various 
bodies of christians must decide to appeal to the Bible 
itself and gather therefrom a true mode. As he reads 
the precious word of God he is impressed more and more 
with the emphasis laid on baptism. He reads Peter's ser- 
mon to the Jews on the day of pentecost and when, at 
the conclusion, conscience stricken thousands cried out, 
"Men and brethren, w^hat shall we do to be saved,'' he 
answers very readily, "repent and be baptized every one 
of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ." Here again 
the word baptize comes before him. His desire to arrive 
at the truth is greater than ever. "Much water a neces- 
sity." The investigation is continued in John 3 : 23. He 
reads, "and John also was baptized near to Salim because 



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there was much water there." This is the first ray of light 
and he feels encouraged. He, the student is told the 
reason that John selected Aenon as a place of baptism — - 
because there was much water. He naturally concludes 
that much water is necessary to baptize the applicant in 
the water. Then the record of baptism is related in Matt. 
3 : 16 "and Jesus when he was baptized went straightway 
up out of the water, and the heavens were opened unto 
Him and He saw the spirit of God descending like a 
dove." Jesus after the baptism went straightway up out 
of the water. This is sufficient that Jesus was in the 
water. The applicant was required to be in the water 
to have the rite of baptism administered to him. Both 
went into the water. 

In the instance of the baptism of Enoch, Acts 8 : 38, 
"and he (Philip) commanded the chariot to stand still 
and they went down, both into the water, both Philip and 
the Enoch, and he baptized him. Here is another step. 
The applicant and the administrator were both in the 
water (and he baptized him). Every evidence has its 
weight. 

After reading of these incidents of baptism it is not 
so difficult to come to a conclusion. BURRIED in BAP- 
TISM. To contiue the investigation, Paul says in Ro- 
mans 6 : 3, 4, "Know ye not that so many as were baptized 
into Jesus Christ were baptized unto his death?" There- 



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fore we are buried with Him in baptism unto death. He 
says also in Colossians 2: 12, "Buried with Him in bap- 
tism, wherein we are also risen with Him through the 
faith of the operation of God." This burial implies put- 
ting out of sight. So now by this illustration of Paul's 
we may see without any difficulty that emersion is the 
mode of baptism. Emersion is baptism. The cause of 
truth demands that all the evidence that can be brought 
to bear on the subject under consideration should be pro- 
duced. Let us then substitute "sprinkle" for baptism in 
the above assertion and see what we can get out of the 
term. 

"And he sprinkled him." This is an impossibility. 
How can a man be sprinkled. We can sprinkle water or 
dust upon the man, but we cannot sprinkle the man, at 
least, unless he was ground to powder. Then let us try 
the word "pour" and he poured him. Here is another im- 
possibility. To pour a man it would be necessary to dis- 
solve him into a liquid. But as soon as we substitute the 
true meaning, the subject is comprehensive. And he 
emersed him. That is just what he did. We see no dif- 
ficulty in grasping this. This, then agrees with the idea 
of much water, and "going into the water." Thus, little 
by little, by a fair, unprejudiced investigation of the evi- 
dence of the truth, right will be obtained. 



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TEXT FOUND IN JAMES 3 : 5. 

Reads thus: "What a great matter a little fire will 
kindle." 

In the New Testament there are three different men 
by this name James. In Matt. 4: 21 we find James the son 
of Zebedee and brother of the evangelist John. Mark 
speaks of that in the fourth chapter and thirty-seventh 
verse. 

2. Their occupation was that of fishermen. Prob- 
ably at Bethsadia, in partnership with Simon Peter. 
Luke 3 : 10. 

3. According to St. Mark and Luke's testimony 
James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother was acquainted 
some time with Jesus and had received them as their Mes- 
siah some time before He called them to attend upon 
Him and when Jesus called them they went at once. 

4. James was called James the less. He was the 
son of Alpeaus. One of the twelve apostles. His moth- 
er's name was Mary. 

5. James was called .the brother of our Lord. Notice 
Galations 1 : 19. When Paul went to Jerusalem to visit 
Peter he found no other apostles there but the Lord's 
brother, James. It is undecided as to which was the 
brother of Christ, James the less or James, the son of 
Alpheaus. 



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7. We find in Eel. 2 : 23 that James, the Lord's 
brother, who obtained the surname of (Just) governed the 
church of Jerusalem during the time and after the apos- 
tles. He was called the first apostle. Jerome, one of the 
Greek writers says that he pastered the church for thirty 
years. 

8. And while James was pastoring at Jerusalem, he 
wrote this epistle to the Jewish christians. This was 
written six years before the destruction of Jerusalem. 

9. Behold how great a matter a little fire will kindle. 

10. At the time when he spake these words they had 
begun to go and prepare to build another church. James 
sent them this letter or epistle, saying, "My brethren be 
ye not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the 
greater condemnation. 

11. Behold we put bits in horses mouths that they 
may obey us, and we turn about their whole body. Be- 
hold also ships are governed. 

12. Even the tongue is a little member and boasteth 
great things. 

13. The tongue is a great fire of iniquity. It can set 
the whole body on fire. 

14. Of every kind of beast, fowl, and even the ser- 
pents the low reptiles. Man have tamed these even the 
things of the sea. 



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15. But the tongue no man can tame it is unruly, 
evil, full of deadly poison. 

16. Doth a fountain send forth sweet water and 
bitter water at the same time out of the same place? Or 
can a fig tree bring forth olive berries and figs at the same 
time? 

SUBJECT: THE THIRD WORLD OR THE 
WORLD OF ETERNITY. 

It is evidently understood by the thinking people of 
the present age that the decision of the Judgment will be 
final and unchangeable. In accordance with these de- 
cisions the righteous in complete glorified state will be 
admitted into heaven, and the wicked will be cast into 
Hell. These two places will be the ultimate receptacles 
of all the human race. 

SUBJECT: .HEAVEN AND ITS INHABITANTS. 

It is everywhere assumed in the Scriptures and es- 
pecially in the New Testament that there is a Heaven. 
Jesus referred to Himself as having come down from 
Heaven. When He ascended it is said that He was car- 
ried up into Heaven (John 6 : 38. Luke 24 : 51.) During 
His ministry He said in His sermon on the mount, "Lay 
up for yourselves treasures in Heaven." Matt. 4:20. At 



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another time He spoke of the enrollment of the names of 
His disciples in Heaven as the source of their highest 
joy. Luke 10:20. 

Paul in writing to the Colossians (1:5) uses the 
words, "the hope which is laid up for you in Heaven. " 
In reference to the use of the term "Heaven" some have 
considered it a debatable question. Whether Heaven is 
a state or a place? We have no objection to either view. 
Christ said, "in my Father's house there are many man- 
sions, if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to 
prepare a place for you. I will come again and receive 
you unto Myself that where I am there ye may be also. 
John 14:2-3. 

So we find it an endless place. It is long enough and 
wide enough for every one in this world that will believe 
on the Lord, and have their name recorded on the Lamb's 
book of life. 

Heaven is a place of wisdom. That the soul be with- 
out knowledge is not good. Prov. 19:2. This is said of 
knowledge in this world. A thirst for knowledge is one 
of the things that distinguishes man from the beast that 
perish. The knowledge pertaining to this world answers 
important purposes, but the excellencies of knowledge has 
to do with Christ and salvation. Ph. 1.3:6. Saints* on 
earth as compared with sinners know much. Yet as 
compared with Saints in Heaven they know but little 



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What we shall know hereafter is not made plain. While 
the assurance is given that it doth not yet appear what 
we shall be. 1 Cor. 13:12. John 13:7. 1 John 3:2. 
When Paul said in, a passage referred to, "Now I know 
in part but then shall I know even as also I am known." 
It seems as if he Apostle Paul had been in counsel within 
himself with the messengers from Heaven to warn and 
explain to him what he should reap hereafter. To know 
as he is known, seems to be as much as even Gabriel or 
Michael can say. It shows forth that he has been in con- 
versation with the messengers of Heaven. It seemed 
after the river of love had washed clown the hills, fields 
and battlements of sin within him the world within. The 
river had also overflown and drown out sin, and tore sin 
up by the root. Then the inward part of him was covered 
with love, as the visible world was covered with water 
during the flood, and the angels could sail on this great 
river from -the throne of God into the heart of him, and 
the angels or message bearers sailed back and forth by 
the wings of love and would lodge in the tree of life that 
God planted near by the river of love. After he had re- 
ceived this eternal life the news was broken to us concern- 
ing the hereafter. The saints in Heaven will know a 
thousand times more about the works and ways of God 
than they can know in this life. As the light of eternity 
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hereafter will be heard the exclamation, great and marvel- 
ous are thy works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true 
are thy ways, thou King of Saints. Rev. 15:3. 

Truly Heaven is a world, a Heavenly world. It is a 
place of perfect holiness. In Heaven there is no sin, it is 
a holy place. The angels are holy. We that are redeemed 
will be without fault before the throne. The holiness of 
Heaven is one of its most powerful attractions. How 
deeply are we impressed with its purity when we remem- 
ber that the angels stated to us when we found Him 
within us, that we could not enter into Heaven until the 
last stain of sin was washed out of the heart. That our 
bodies must return to dust, and then be reconstructed 
without a taint of sin before they can inherit the kingdom 
of God. No matter how much christians may be annoyed 
and distressed by sin on this earth, when they enter 
Heaven they will be troubled by it no more. They will 
dwell forever in the realms of perfect purity. Heaven is 
a holy place of love. 

In this respect how greatly it differs from earth. 
Here hatred often prevails among nations and individuals. 
Injustice in its many forms may be traced to it. Thou 
shall love thy neighbor as thyself is a commandment, a 
violation of which, the history of our country bears great 
record, Hatred ranking in the human breast has too 
often made earth an aceldama or a field of blood. Nor 



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can it be said that the passion of hatred is entirely extinct 
in the regenerated people of God. Who has not seen 
proof of its existence in various forms of envy, jealousy 
and evil speaking. Alas ! Love among brethren is by 
no means perfect on earth. But in heaven there is an un- 
distured reign of holy love. All the inhabitants of that 
bright world love God supremely and love one another 
subordinately. Every saint can there say, "I love every 
one of these saints and every one of them love me. The 
poet says : 

"In Heaven there is rest. That thought hath a power 
To scatter the shades of life's dreadest hour." 

Heaven is a place where divine glory is displayed in 
the highest degree. "And I saw a new Heaven and a new 
Earth. For the first Heaven and the first Earth were 
passed away and there was no more sea/' Rev. 21:1. 
"And I, John, saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, 
coming down from God out of Heaven ; prepared as a 
bride adorned for her husband. " Rev. 21 : 1. "And I 
heard a great voice out of Heaven saying, 'the tabernacle 
of God is with men, and he will dwell w T ith them and they 
shall be his people, and God Himself shall be with them 
and be their God/ " Rev. 21 : 3. 

And He showed me a pure river of water of life clear 
as a crystal proceeding out of the throne of God, and of 
the Lamb. "Rev. 22: 1. 



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John was in the spirit, he did not look with the 
natural eye but with a spiritual eye and since his taber- 
nacle was clean he had a clear sight with the eye of faith 
from the world within him to the world of eternity. He 
was filled with the spirit of God. 

Before the world was, God was God. For Christ 
said glorify thou me as you did before the world was. 
By him all things were made. The angels go at His com- 
mand and the angels receive their power from the pres- 
ence of God. John was called away into the spirit of the 
Lord and he saw God sitting on the throne and the angels 
singing praises to Him, crying, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord 
God, which was, is, and is to come." 

John had lost sight of this external world and had 
failed to see with this natural eye (yea he had just taken 
the eye of faith and caught sight of the lily white angel 
of hope, and was drinking from that great fountain of 
love) and he was conversing with the angels of Heaven 
that had sailed by obedience upon the river of love that 
flows from the throne of God into the heart of man and 
John says, "after this I looked and behold a door was 
opened in Heaven and the first voice which I heard was 
as it were a trumpet talking with me, which said, come up 
hither and I will show thee things which must be here- 
after. And immediately I saw in the spirit, and behold a 
throne was set in Heaven, and one sat on the throne (Rev. 



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41 : 2) and round about the throne were four and twenty 
elders sitting clothed in white raiment and they had on 
their heads crowns of gold. Oh, just listen! Out of the 
throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices, 
and there were seven lamps of fine burning before the 
throne which are the seven spirits of God." 

My dear friends let us still believe this good book, 
the Bible, that tells us that Heaven is not a myth and let 
us be prepared to follow the dear ones who have gone 
before. There and there alone can we find the peace we 
seek. My dear friends this is one of the strongest feelings 
in the human heart. Is it not to find some better place, 
some lovlier spot than we have now. It is for this that 
men are seeking everywhere and yet they can have it if 
they will. But instead of looking down, they must look 
up to find it. As men grow in knowledge they vie with 
each other more and more to make their homes attractive. 
But the finest home on earth is no more than an old barn 
compared with our great mansion that Christ prepared for 
us in Heaven. Do we not, at the close of life, look for 
some sheltered place or some quiet place where we can 
rest and rejoice with our loved ones that have gone on be- 
for us. We may at least have a foretaste of what it is 
to be. May we ask the question, what was it that led Co- 
lumbus, not knowing what would be his fate, across the 
unsailed western seas? If it were not to find a better 



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country. It was this that strengthened the hearts of our 
old fathers, driven from their land by persecution, as they 
face the savage coast. They were cheered and upheld by 
the hope of seeing a better country, where they could be 
at rest. Somewhat similar is the christian hope in Heav- 
en, only it is not an undiscovered world. Perhaps nothing 
but the shortness of faith or spiritual sight keeps us from 
seeing the doors of that great mansion open unto us and 
nothing but the hardness of our understanding that keeps 
us from hearing the joyful music that is being played on 
the Heavenly harps. There are wonderful sounds around 
us that we cannot understand but we do know that there 
is a place of rest in that great mansion in Heaven that 
was prepared for those who love the Lord. 

As I was walking along the railway, one summer 
day. It was clear and the sun was shining brightly. I 
looked and as far as I could see the railroad seemed level 
and quite away ahead of me I saw a city. It seemed as 
if the city was but a short way off. I gained courage and 
walked for several hours, and I looked again and the city 
did not seem any closer than it did when I first saw it 
several hours before. The city was located on a hill, and 
by the clearness of the day and the valley being level it 
looked to me as though I was almost at the city. But I 
continued to travel, and by and by with perseverance I 
entered the city. I was tired and as soon as I got into 



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the city I found rest. Sometimes we dwell in a high lati- 
tude of grace. Heaven seems very near because there are 
no clouds of sin before us. The Gospel railway seems 
straight and clear, and the great celestial city is sitting in 
plain view. At other times the clouds of fogs that come 
through suffering and sin obstructs our view and we 
are just as near Heaven in the one case as we were in 
the other, and we can be just as sure to march into Heav- 
en, as I marched into that city that was sitting before 
me, if we will keep in the middle of the Gospel road that 
Christ laid down for us. I read in a little book at one time 
where there were several little children down by a river 
playing, some on one side and some on the other, they 
would call one another across the river although the tide 
was high. They would call to each other from across 
the river and would wait for an answer. It was so foggy 
that they could not see each other but they could hear 
each others voices, and that made them happy although 
they could not see each other. Perhaps if we could make 
an earnest call to some of our loved ones on the other side 
of the river, we might hear the answer, "Come over here 
where we are, there is rest for the weary ones." 

I remember one time in old Virginia a farmer lived on 
a high mountain in Bedford County. He had a custom 
of carrying a heavy bag of corn to the grist mill. The way 
he had to go to the mill was all down grade and he did 



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not feel the burden so much. He usually left a part of 
the meal at the mill, but on this day he decided that he 
would carry as much meal home as he had carried corn to 
the mill. He walked patiently on until he got a part of 
the way up the hill and the meal began to get much too 
heavy for him to climb the mountain. He stopped and 
buried a part of the meal so that it could not be found, 
then he walked a little farther and stopped again and 
would take out more meal in a paper sack and hide it. 
He did not know that there was any one looking at him. 
So the way from earth to Heaven is a highway and the 
way to hell is downward. A man can carry an awful ^ 
load of this world's goods to hell and he don't feel the 
burden much. But just as soon as a man starts up the 
Kings highway with this worlds goods, he has to stop 
and bury them as did the old man with the meal and he 
became so tired and weak that he had to go on and leave 
it all behind him. So it is with us* we have to leave all 
of our sins behind us and go home with nothing but 
ourselves. Job says, "I brought nothing into this world 
and I shall carry nothing out. I read of a woman that 
had been confined to her bed for years. She was one 
of those saints that God polishes up for the kingdom for 
I believe that there are many saints that we never hear 
about, never see any great accounts of their lives in the 
press of this country but I am sure that they will live 



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near the Master in Heaven." I believe as Rev. D. L. 
Moody says in his sermon, that it takes a great deal 
more grace to suffer God's will than it does to do God's 
will. This lady said that she used to take great pleasure, 
in watching a bird that came to make her nest near her 
window. She said one year it came to make its nest, and 
it began to build it so low that she was afraid that some-, 
thing might happen to the young and each morning when 
she saw the bird busy at work making its nest she would 
say, "Oh birdie buifd higher," she could see that the bird 
saw coming to grief and disappointment. At last the 
nest was finished and the bird had laid its eggs and 
hatched its young. Every morning the lady said that 
she would look to see if the nest was there and she saw 
the old bird bringing food for the young ones, and she 
took a great deal of pleasure in watching them. But one 
morning when she went to the window to look for the 
nest, she saw nothing but feathers scattered all around 
and she said, "Ah, the cat has got the old bird and all of 
its young, it is such a pity that the nest was torn down. 
It would have been a mercy to have taken the nest away." 
That is what God does for us very often, just snatches 
things away before it is too late. I think that is what he 
wants to say to our church people, that if you build for 
time you will be disappointed. God says that we must 
build for eternity. It is much better to have life in Christ 



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and God than anywhere else. I would rather have my life 
hid in Christ than living in a palace. 

The inhabitants of Heaven are select. No one can 
dispute that. You who study the Scriptures know it to 
be true. There is jealousy in this world of many kinds. 
But in Heaven it will be only of holiness. The humblest 
servant on earth will be the royal guest in Heaven. "For 
thus saith the high and lofty ones that inhabit eternity, 
whose name is Holy. I will dwell in the high and holy 
places with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit. 
What could be more plain to man than that? No one 
that is not of a humble and contrate spirit, will dwell with 
God in his high and holy place. If there is anything that 
ought to make Heaven near and dear to christians it is to 
think that all of our loved ones and relatives are there. 
For Christ said. "He that doeth the will of my father, 
the same is my brother and my sister. God is our father 
and the apostles and prophets are our brethren and we 
hope to meet them bye and bye. Notice the 18th Chapter 
of Matt, and the 10th verse, it will tell you that the 
Angels are there. Take heed that you do not despise 
one of these little ones for I say unto you that in Heaven 
there Angels do always behold the face of my father 
which is in Heaven. 

It says in another place when Gabriel came down 
from Heaven to tell Zachariah that he was to be the 



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father of the forerunner of Jesus Christ. Zachariah 
doubted him. He had never been doubted before and that 
doubt is met with the declaration, "I am Gabriel, that 
standeth in the presence of the Almighty God. 1 ' 

We are aware of the fact that a dead man cannot in- 
herit estate, neither can a dead soul inherit Heaven. The 
soul of a man must be resurrected in Christ Tesus among 
the good whom we hope to meet in Heaven. There are 
many Mansions in Heaven and there are many gates to 
enter therein. 

KNOWING ONE ANOTHER IN HEAVEN. 

The question is often asked, "Shall we know any of 
our friends in Heaven ?" In the 8th chapter of Matt, and 
the 2nd verse we read, "And I say unto you that many 
shall come from the East and West and shall sit down 
with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of 
Heaven. These men have not lost their identity. They 
were known as Abraham, Isaac and Tacob on earth, and 
if you will read of that wonderful scene on the Mount of 
Transfiguration, you will find that Moses who had been 
gone from the earth 1500 years was there. Peter, James 
and John saw Moses on the Mount of Transfiguration. 

God says in the book of Isaiah, "I will not blot your 
name out of the Lamb's book of life." We will have 
names in Heaven, we are going to bear our names there, 



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we shall be known. In the Psalms it says, "When we 
wake in His likeness we shall be be satisfied, " that is 
enough. In the second Chapter of the 1st Epistle of John 
speaking to the followers of Christ, "Beloved now we are 
the sons of God. And it doth not yet appear what we 
shall be but we know, that when He shall appear, we shall 
be like Him for we shall see Him as He is. And every 
man hath this hope in Him, purifieth himself even as He 
is pure. You will find in the scriptures that a great many 
careless Christians will get in Heaven. There will be 
many who will barely get in by the skin of their teeth, 
or as Lot was saved from Sodom, so as by fire they will 
make their escape. 

We have many people that say that they are going 
to Heaven whether or no. They say that they are sure 
of the kingdom. They live in a very careless sort of way. 
But it is a very straight path from this earth to Heaven. 
God says that no liars, nor drunkards, nor whoremongers 
shall enter the kingdom of Heaven. Woe unto them that 
allow themselves to be deceived. Christ says, ye must 
be born again. 

A CHRISTIAN WILL LIVE FOREVER. 

It says in the 12th chapter of John and the 26th 
verse, if any man serve me let him follow after me and 
where I am there also shall my servants be. I cannot 



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agree with some people that Paul has been sleeping for 19 
hundred years in the grave. I cannot believe that one 
who loved the Master, had such a burning zeal for Christ 
has been separated from him in an unconscious state for 
such a length of time. 

Father I will that they also whom thou hast given 
me, be with me where I am that hath may behold my 
glory which thou hath given me. This is Christ's prayer, 
"Now when a man believes on the Lord Jesus Christ he 
receives Eternal Life. A great many people make a mis- 
take right there. He that believeth on the Son hath 
Eternal Life. It does not say that he shall have it when 
he comes to die, it is in the present tense. Eternal Life 
is yours now- -if you believe. There is no definite length 
of time for Eternal Life, Eternity is as long as God lives, 
no way of calculating the length of Eternity. Eternal 
Life is yours, Eternal Life is mine, if we believe. 

I believe that when Paul said, "to be absent from the 
body and present with the Lord," he meant what he said, 
that he was not going to be separated from Christ. The 
spirit that he got when he was converted, he got it from 
a new life and a new nature and they could not bury that 
in the grave. 

They could not bury an infinite Spirit. It may be that 
he is not satisfied and will not be until the resurrection, 
but Christ says, "He will see then the travail of His soul 



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and be satisfied." Even the body shall be raised. This 
body sown in dishonor shall be raised in glory. This body 
which has put on corruption shall put on incorruption, 
and this mortal shall put on immortality. It is only a 
question of time the great morning of the world will dawn 
by and by and the dead shall come forth and shall hear 
the voice of Him who is the resurrection and the Life. 
As I forestated, the Apostle Paul says, "If our earthly 
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God; 
a house not made with hands, but eternal in the Heavens. v 
He could take down the clay temple and leave that, but 
he would have a better house. He says in one place, "I 
am a straight betwixt two. Having a desire to depart and 
be with Christ which is far better ; nevertheless to abide 
in the flesh is more needful for me." A great many people 
are living under the bondage of death. But if we have 
Eternal Life death cannot destroy it. This house that 
we dwell in, this body may be reduced to dust again. But 
the Spirit shall live. 

NO DRUNKARDS IN HEAVEN. 

According to the teachings of the scriptures, no 
drunkards shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven. You 
mothers who have sons who are starting to drink and 
lead a dissipated life, should not rest day or night until 



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your sons be converted by the Spirit of God. I read in a 
book some time ago an account of people in India wor- 
shiping snakes in their Temples. There was the- story 
of a mother who said that she saw a snakecrawl into 
her home, and coil itself around the body of her little 
child, a mere infant, and she regarded the snake as a 
sacred thing and she did not dare to touch it. And she 
saw that snake destroy her child. She heard the pitiful 
screams of her babe, but she did not dare to rescue it. It 
was very sad to read the story, but we have people in 
our own country that exercise an influence over our boys 
and girls, that is as evil, and poisonous as the coil of that 
serpent that destroyed the child. Serpents are coming 
into christian homes and destroying sons and daughters. 
Parents seem not to be earnest enough about the spiritual 
and moral welfare of their children. May we be not 
afraid to rescue the boy and the girl from the coil of the 
serpent. 

If there is anything that will open the doors of 
Heaven, it is the name of Jesus. In our lodge rooms and 
halls we have pass words but in heaven there is only one 
pass word and the pass word at the door of Heaven is 
this, "Blessed is the name of Jesus that hath given me 
everlasting life," and these words will admit a christian 
at any time. And this pass word never changes. Isaiah 
has given this promise to every one that is saved, "Thine 



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eyes shall see the King in His beauty. They shall behold 
the Lord that is very far off. 

John Milton says of the saints that have gone already, 
"they will walk with God high in the climes of bliss and 
Salvation. In the sixth Epistle to Timothy we read of 
Christ as the blessed and only potentate, the King of 
Kings and Lord of Lords. In the first chapter and the 
28th verse of Ezekiel we find that the prophet had a faint 
glimpse of it "As the appearance of the bow that hid 
in the clouds in the day of rain, so was the appearance of 
the brightness around about. This was the appearance 
of the likeness of the glory of the Lord and when I saw 
it I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake." 

A servant that is working for some one else rarely 
ever takes the interest that he would if he were working 
for himself or if he had a share in the business. Heaven 
would not be a joy to us if we did not know that we 
were part ow r ners through Jesus Christ our Elder Brother. 
Having treasures laid up there encourages us to work 
more earnestly for our reward. 

In second Peter, first chapter and fourth verse it says 
that we are made partakers of the Divine nature. I re- 
member that my mother used to take in poor little unkept 
children and care for them. And I would wonder why 
she did it. But after I found Jesus I knew that it was 
love that made 'her do it. And I can liken myself to the 



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little unkept children, and Jesus took me and washed me 
clean in His precious blood and put on me a new garment. 
In Isaiah sixty-first chapter it says, "He hath clothed us 
with a spotless robe of innocence. With the garment of 
salvation, He hath covered us with a robe of righteous- 
ness ; as a bride decketh herself with ornaments, and as 
a bride adorneth herself with jewels. " 

In Luke 15 :7 it says, "I say unto you that likewise joy 
shall be in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more 
than over ninety and nine just persons that needeth no 
repentance." 

Rich men often go abroad to speculate and they in- 
vest money and sometimes they are very fortunate and 
return with millions of dollars; and they deposit it in a 
bank, or put it in a great building of some kind and think 
that the money is safe, and they rest secure. But the 
bank fails, or the money is stolen, and that man has lost 
his money. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon 
earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves 
doth break through and steal ; but lay up for your- 
selves treasures in Heaven where neither moth doth cor- 
rupt, and where thieves doth not break through nor steal. 
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be. It 
does not take very long to tell where a man's treasure is. 
if you talk to him for a few moments. If he has money 
in the bank and the bank has failed, he is very much dis- 



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couraged but if he has no money in the bank, if it fails 
it does not interest him very much. A conversation about 
heavenly things will not interest a man that is not a 
christian very much, because he has no treasure there. 

A great many people try too hard to please man. The 
good will of a man don't amount to much when we are 
not in harmony with Christ. "What is man" that we 
may fear him. There is no power in man, but let us try 
to please God, who has our reward laid up in Heaven. 
And w T e will receive our reward according to our works. 

"Ye are they which justify yourselves before men. 
But God knoweth your hearts. For- which is high es- 
teemed among men, 'is an abomination in. the sight of 
God." 

A YOUNG CHRISTIAN IS LIKE UNTO A YOUNG 

BIRD. 

I was sitting down the other day thinking about the 
old homestead down in old Virginia and was talking 
about how mamma and papa used to care for their little 
chickens, how much pains they seemed to take with them, 
and a reason crossed my mind and called my attention to 
the time when we children once would go about the loft 
of the barn and watch the little young .birds in the little 
nest. Mamma would not let us trouble them at all for 






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she said it was a sin for us to touch them, and I noticed 
when the young ones would hear us coming up into the 
loft it seemed as if they would get uneasy for some cause 
at that time unknown to me, and we would wait until 
their mamma would come back. And when she came she 
would always fly near the nest and make some kind of a 
chirp, and when she would make this chirp it was fun for 
us to see the young birds stretch their little necks and 
open w T ide their mouths aad yell, though their eyes would 
be shut, but they had knowledge enough to recognize 
the mother's voice and understand what she would say. 
And I noticed she- would only feed them one at a time 
and the beauty was this, they didn't show no jealousy 
towards each other whatever, but all of them would open 
their mouths, then they would fly away again. Presently 
she would return again with some food and she would 
feed another one until she fed them all around. One par- 
ticular thing I noticed while the old bird was feeding 
her young ones was this, she never would bring them any 
stale food ; it seemed like it would alway be fresh ; it 
would be a worm or a bug or something that was alive 
when she caught it. I often wondered why their mamma 
did not give them crumbs of bread or something like that. 
We children sometimes would scatter bread about in the 
loft for the old bird but it looked as though she would not 
feed them the bread that we would give to her at all. We 



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used to say, why that old bird is crazy, she had better fly 
down here and get this bread. It made us feel some bad 
to think that we had gone to all of the trouble climbing up 
and down through the old loft ^nd then she would not 
appreciate what we had done for her. 

The spirit taught me th"&t a young bird represents a 
young christian. When they are first born again they 
should assemble themselves together in one band as the 
little birds. Young christians can't see their father when 
they are first converted, neither can little young birds see 
their mothers, but whereas the young birds have knowl- 
edge enough to understand their mothers so have young 
christians wisdom from God to understand the teaching 
of the holy spirit and at any time the spirit of God would 
call them, whereas I noticed the young birds opening 
their mouths when their mother would chirp. So it is 
with a child of God. At any time ypu hear the holy spirit 
call you, if you are a child of God, you will open wide 
your hearts as much as to say, Lord I open my heart, 
place just such food as you would have me to eat. I think 
we should as Christians use the knowledge as a little bird 
uses, be contented with whatever talent the Lord gives 
us. I noticed the young birds did not seem to be stubborn 
whatever but seemed to be in good cheer, perfectly con- 
tented. Whilst I was meditating the other day and I 
said to the spirit of my mind. Oh, I wish all christians 



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were cheerful, humble and contented as those little spar- 
rows were, that we children used to watch in their little 
nest. Whatever their mother would feed them they were 
perfectly contented with it. Oh let us as christians use 
the wisdom of a sparrow ; let us be contented with what- 
ever the Lord gives us and let us not murmur, neither 
grumble. 

And the thought now that presents itself to me, 
whereas the old bird would not use our bread, was that 
I believe wisdom taught her that our bread had been 
parched and baked by a material fire and with its in- 
gredients it would not be healthy for her to feed her 
young ones because the life of the germ was parched, and 
was dead and it had no life in it. I think she was afraid 
by the teaching of wisdom whereas the life of the germ 
had been killed it would lay too heavy on their little 
stomachs, knowing that they were in their infancy and 
unable to digest it. So it is with the teaching of the 
holy spirit. Jesus says, "I am the bread of life that came 
down from Heaven/' It shows to us that the Lord does 
not want us to partake of the stale and defile things of this 
world that are made by man but look to me as the little 
bird, look to her mother and say, Lord I am in my infancy. 
Feed me Lord and give me just such food as you know 
I need. Then Jesus, our father, gives us the bread of life 
that we may live always and never die. Jesus gives it to 



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us fresh but of the throne red hot, and oh how easy it is 
to digest through our heart whereas if we would depend 
on man for life our minds would be poisoned to death with 
the corrupt thing of this world, but God being our father, 
being an all wise God, he knows iust what kind of food 
we need and, I doubt not, if that old sparrow would have 
fed those little birds the bread I gave her to give them, 
every one of them would have died, for I gave her, as near 
as I can recall, some bread that had been cooked for two 
or three days, and maybe more. I know this much, it 
was old and stale and I found out that the old bird had 
more wisdom than I did. I believe everyone can witness 
this fact, how r great, oh God, art thy w r isdom and knowl- 
edge. 

The young ones seem to be so meek and obey their 
mother so well. A thought came to me to read the fifth 
chapter of the Gospel credited to Saint Matthew and 
the fifth verse. It reads like this : Blessed are the meek ; 
for they shall inherit the earth. ' Through meekness the 
earth by nature and through God's will produces germs 
and bring forth little insects and many seeds that these 
meek and humble little birds may be fed. And just to 
think how feeble they are. They can't work as you and 
I. Neither do they weary themselves like you and I, but 
they only accept the teaching of wisdom and live accord- 
ing to its teaching and they are fed. And another 



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thought whereas that we children, climbing* up and 
watching the movements and actions of those little birds, 
the spirit taught me that this was the same way the world 
watched a young christian, and a good spirit speaks to 
them and lay not thine hand upon these young for it is 
a sin. 

THE FOURTH WORLD WHICH IS CALLED HELL 

As it is a delightful privilege to refer to Heaven as 
the abode of the righteous, it is a solemn duty to recognize 
the teachings of the Bible concerning Hell. x\s the place 
where the wicked will be punished, Christ said, "Ye serp- 
ents, ye generation of vipers. How can ye escape the 
damnation of hell. Matt. 5 : 29, 10 : 28, 23 : 33. And if thy 
hand offend thee, cut it off. It is better for thee to enter 
into life mained, than having two hands to go into hell ; 
into the fire that never shall be quenched. Mark 9:43. 
Fear him, whom after he killeth hath power to cast into 
hell. Yea, I say unto you, fear Him. Luke 12 : 5. These 
passages prove beyond a doubt that there is a Hell. I do 
not think that Jesus meant a literal Hell fire nor worm, 
but what follows. That the punishment of the wicked 
will be less dreadful, than if they should be cast into 
material fire, by no' means. The philosophy of language 
prompts us to enquire if the symbol of punishment be 
so fearful. The reality must be much worse than the ma- 
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A very positive statement concerning the punishment 
of the wicked was made by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. 
He spoke of, "outer darkness, weeping, and wailing and 
nashing of teeth, and a place of punishment, eternal dam- 
nation." Matt. 8 : 12. Luke 16 : 28. Mark 9 : 24. Matt. 
25 : 46. Mark 3 : 29. Indeed the furure retribution of the 
wicked is a most copious as well as awful subject, which 
I shall discuss only so far as to refer briefly to the words 
of Christ as recorded in Matt. 25 : 46. "They shall go 
away into everlasting punishment. '' Here is two points 
that claim attention. What is punishment? It is the in- 
flicting of pain for disobedience. So it is, a father punishes 
a disobedient child. Punishment had reference to sin 
and under the government of God, it is the executive pen- 
alty of His law. It is God who executes this penalty. 
Which is death eternal. A place where the soul of man 
will be tormented forever and ever. The wages of sin is 
death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus 
Christ our Lord. Rom. 5 : 23. This fact enables us to 
understand what is meant by the wrath of God. This 
scriptural phrase denotes God just and holy. Indignation 
arises from the fact that sin is a transgression of His law, 
and therefore, His justice requires that sinners be pun- 
ished according to the teaching of the scriptures. They 
will be punished according as their demerits require. In 
the words of Christ, "They shall go away into everlasting 



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punishment. Matt 25 : 46. Of the wicked, Paul says, 
"Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction, 
from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his 
power. 2 Thes. 1:9. 

When Jesus says, "These shall go away into ever- 
lasting punishment but the righteous into life eternal ; but 
the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer 
darkness. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 

WHY THIS FOURTH WORLD OF HELL WAS 

PREPARED. 

The book of generations relates to us the whole sub- 
ject of man's disobedience, and his loss therefrom. Para- 
dise was the place of his abode. The serpent who revolted 
from God, was by the command of God driven out of 
Heaven, with all of his crew into the gieat deep (in a 
place of outer darkness), which in the first chapter of 
Genesis is called (chaos) according as the scriptures and 
the spirit reveals it to me, there Satan laid, thunder struck 
and astonished after he had recovered for a space. Then 
he had a conference with his followers, and they began 
to lay plans for the regaining of Heaven. He comforted 

them with a plan for the subjugation of the earth. He also 

• 

told them of the creatures to be created and placed on the 

earth, that were to be not much inferior to the angels. 

In fact he called a council with the very peers of the in- 



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ferno, and planned to battle with Almighty God. It 
seems to me that when Satan and his followers, were cast 
into outer darkness, they passed on to Hell, and they 
found the gates shut and guarded. Who guarded them? 
The scripture says that Satan should be bound for a 
thousand years. We learn that the gates were opened 
and he went in. There Satan discovered the great gulf, 
that lay between the world of punishment and the world 
of eternity. "And it came to pass that the beggar died 
and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. 
The rich man also died and was buried, and in hell he 
lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and seeth Abraham 
afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom and he cried and said, 
"Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus 
that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my 
tongue for I am tormented in this fire." And Abraham 
said, "Son remember in thy life time receivest thou good 
things, and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is 
comforted and thou art tormented. And besides all this 
there is a gulf fixed so that they which would pass from 
hence to you cannot, neither can they pass from hence 
that would come to us. Then he said, I pray thee there- 
fore that thou would send him to my father's house for 
I have five brothers that he may testify unto him less they 
also come unto this place of torment. Luke 16122-28. 
This statement shows us plainly that there is a place of 



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torment, and that there is a gulf between Heaven and 
hell. We find that the rich man fell not of his own malice 
as did Satan, but was by him seduced. The son of God 
renders prayers to -His Father for the manifestation of 
His gracious purpose towards man, but Divine Justice 
could not be satisfied until a fitting offering for the sins 
of man was made. .The Son of God freely gave himself 
a ransom for the sins of man. The Father accepted him, 
ordained His incarnation, pronounces his exaltation above 
all names in Heaven and earth. The Angels were com- 
manded to adore Him, and they sing praises to the Father 
and the Son. 

And there was war in Heaven. Michael and his 
angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought 
and his angels and prevailed not, neither was there place 
found any ' more in Heaven, and the great dragon was 
cast out, that old serpent called the devil and Satan 
which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast out unto 
the wrath and his angels were cast out with him. Rev. 
12 : 7-9. 

And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven now is 
come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of our God, 
and the power of His Christ. For the accuser of our 
brethren is cast down, which accuseth before our God, 
day and night, and overcame Him by the blood of the 
lamb and by the word of the testimony and their love, and 



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not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice ye 
heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabi- 
tants of the earth, and of the sea for the devil is come 
down unto you, having" great wrath because he knoweth 
he hath but a short time. Rev. 12 : 9-12. Satan now in 
prosect of Eden, the place where he must attempt the bold 
enterprise which he undertook alone against God at one 
time. And man fell into many doubts with himself fear- 
ing envy and despair but at length confirms himself in 
evil journey on to Paradise, whose outvvard form and 
situation is described. Satan first saw Adam and Eve. He 
marveled at their excellent form and happy state. He 
gained resolution in himself to work their fall. Satan 
listens and overhears the discourse of Adam and Eve. 
Adam was telling Eva about the command that God had 
given Him. Adam and Eve did not know that the object 
that sat in the tree was a betrayor and he heard Adam 
tell Eve that the tree of knowledge was forbidden for 
them to eat. Satan sat in the shape of a water bird ; Isa. 
24: 11. Lev. 11 : 17. Deut. 14: 17. So we have proof that 
Satan turned himself into the form of a water bird to 
defeat man. He heard Adam say to Eve that "If we eat 
of the tree of knowledge we shall surely die." The 
Serpent gained a conversation with Eve and he repeated 
the words to Eve that God had spoken to Adam which 
Satan had overheard in the garden while he was eaves- 



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dropping in the form of a water bird. And the woman 
said to the Serpent we may eat of the trees of the fruit 
of the garden (Gen. 3 : 2) but of the fruit of the tree which 
standeth in the midst thereof, God hath said, "Ye shall 
not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Gen. 
3:3. 

And the Serpent said unto the woman, "Ye shall 
surely not die for God doth know that in the way ye eat 
thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as 
wise as God; knowing good and evil. Gen. 3 : 5. 

And after they had partaken of the fruit and had vio- 
lated the law of God, they found themselves naked so they 
were found pinning fig leaves together to hide their 
shameful selves. , 

God waited patiently until the cool of the evening, 
God sent an angel down in the cool of the day and they 
heard a voice in the garden and they were afraid because 
they were naked and hid themselves. Gen. 3 : 9. Adam 
said I heard thy voice and I was afraid and hid myself. 
And the angel said, "Who told thee that thou was naked, 
hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee 
that thou should not eat thereof. Gen. 3:11. 

Mesiah, Gabriel, Raphel and the rest of God's angels 
returns to the father with great triumph that, they had 
won the victory and Christ appeared to John on the Isle 
of Patmos and said ,"I am he that liveth and was dead 






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and behold I am alive forever more, Amen, and have the 
keys of hell and of death. Rev. 1 : 18." We see by this 
testimony of our Lord that there is a hell, a world of 
punishment for the wicked, a place for those to dwell that 
rebel against God, and his commands. 

THE INHABITANTS OF HELL. 

Since we have learned about the inhabitants and con- 
ditions of the external world, the world within, and the 
world of eternity, we will proceed to explain the inhabi- 
tants of hell. 

The place hell is inhabited with quite a number of 
inhabitants. The first settlers of that world were Satan 
and his angels. After they were cast out of Heaven they 
were driven to the dreadful world of woe, by God's army 
of angels. And the population of hell increased by the 
reception of evil spirits that was manifested by Lucifer 
the old arch fiend of hell, and by the conversation between 
Satan and his angels consulting and making new devilish 
laws it created little demons and they grew very fast and 
after man Violated the law of God, Satan issued stock into 
that world of woe, and the shares were many. They could 
be bought by the wages of sin. Man joined in and took 
a stock out w T ith Satan, then he was a subject for con- 
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They fed and subsisted upon bad deeds and evil com- 
munication the thought of the loss of Heaven makes them 
very miserable, all hope was cut off. Faith had lost its 

strength and the thoughts of that is what made hell so 
hot. 

Hell is inhabited with human souls, such as blas- 
phemers. There are moral sinners and wine room girls, 
ball room members, rag-time singers, thieves, murderers, 
drunkards, gamblers, saloon keepers and law breakers. 
All of these jjave taken out stock with Satan and his 
demons. They converse together, their talk is of evil 
things. They plan attractive things that may attract man 
from the right way and lead him to that world that was 
prepared for the devil and his angels. 

A quick route to hell. The world of damnation. Ter- 
rific scenery through dismal swamp. Special stop at 
murder's gap and hangman's gorge. Takes on extra cars 
at suicide ave., for sample room square, theatre street, 
blasphemers hall, smokers furnace. Last stop dime novel 
ave., and Inger sol park. Goes through the dark valley 
the shadow of death at midnight, and plunges her passen- 
gers into eternal woe. Special trains are run everv Sun- 
day. 

The train stops at worldly depot where proud 

christians and church members get aboard. And takes 
sleeping car for Hell. The fare is their soul. 






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THE RESURRECTION. 

For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even 
so then also which sleep in Christ will God bring with 
Him. IThes. 4:14. 

When God created the spirit of man he created it in 
union with a material body. This being so, the question 
may arise, whether that union will not be perpetual ; 
whether though the body go down into the grave, it shall 
not be raised again to exist with the spirit forever. 

That the body shall live forever, has been the belief 
of the church throughout all ages. Hardly the smallest 
sect has taken exception to the formula. If the bible 
teaches anything at all, it teaches that the body which is 
laid in the grave shall vet be raised therefrom. It is true 
that the Bible nowhere contains the exact phrase, "the 
resurrection of the body" and there has appeared here and 
there the doctrine that the rising from the dead of which 
the scriptures speaks is not the rising again of the body, 
which w r as layed in the grave, that though the spirit in 
the future will have a body, it will not be the body in 
which we now live. 

This doctrine is simply the doctrine of immortality 

in a bodily form. It denies any resurrection except 

such as takes place at the instant of death, it may not find 

general acceptance as the Bible doctrine of the rising of 
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When Tesus ascended from the Mount of Olives, 
when Elijah was caught upon the chariot of fire, when 
"Enoch was taken as he walked and talked with God, in 
each of these cases, there was not a leaving of the mate- 
rial body, but the body was caught up into space. 

We are told in 1 Thes. 4:17 that when the Lord 
shall descend from Heaven, and the dead Christ shall 
rise, those who are alive and remain shall be caught up 
together with those in the clouds to meet the Lord in 
the air. Caught up, of course in the bodies in which they 
stand, and so shall they ever be with the Lord. 

All bodies of the future saints shall be .alike then. 
All must wear the bodies of the present time changed, as 
Paul says, (1 Cor. 15:52). 

According to the teachings we are considering the 
saints who have passed from earth have already attained 
the rising from the dead. But in the teaching of the 
Bible, this rising is yet to take place. It is not until the 
last trump, that the dead shall rise. 1 Cor. 15: 53. The 
Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, 
and the dead in Christ shall rise, 1 Thes. 4: 16. In many 
passages the time of rising is given, as still in the future. 
This rising therefore can be nothing less than the rising 
of the body from the dead. 

If the resurrection from the dead takes place at 
death, then Jesus Christ arose from the 'dead immediately 






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after his death on the cross. The Bible says, that he rose 
on the third day, and so, those that sleep in Christ will not 
have risen until their bodies rise from the grave as the 
body of christ arose from the grave. On the third day 
Paul says, "If Christ be preached that he rose from the 
dead/' Now the existence of Christ in a body which had 
risen would be no proof at all of the continued existence 
of those whose bodies have not risen. 

"If there be no resurrection from the dead,'' says 
Paul, "then is Christ not risen." But if Jesus' body be 
risen from the grave how say some of you, that there is 
no such thing as the rising of the body from the grave? 
The argument that the Apostles used shows that the 
rising from the dead, was to simply the existentence of 
the Spirit after the death of the body but the rising to 
life again of the body itself. And that the body of the 
present, is to be the body of the future is proven by the 
scriptures. It is that which is sown in darkness, which is 
to be raised in power, the corruptable which shall put 
on incorruption, the mortal which shall put on immoral- 
ity. 1 Cor. 15. We read in Ph. 1.3-20 that Christ shall 
change our vile body, that the same may be fashioned like 
unto His glorious body. But the idea of the restoration 
of this present body suggests difficulties which indeed are 
great. It decays, and its substance passes off in gases, 
is defused throughout the whole atmosphere. Consumed 



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before it ascends in smoke and is dispelled to the four 
corners of the Heavens, its ashes are trampled into the 
soil. Cast into the sea it is dissolved in the waters, and 
wafted throughout the entire globe. To some the ques- 
tion may rise, how can a body thus destroyed, ever 
be raised. He were a wise man indeed who shall say how 
it shall be done, but he must be wiser yet, to say that 

it shall not be done. 

We read that Elijah was caught up into Heaven, 
and that the bodies of the saints who are alive at Christ's 
coming, shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. 
If we believe the Bible at all we must believe fully in 
these things. 

Surely it is just as difficult to believe that the bodies 
of the living saints, shall be caught up at Christ's coming, 
as to believe that the bodies of the dead shall be raised 
to be caught up with them. 

Matthew's description of the crucifixion tells of the 
graves being opened when the Saviour gave up the Ghost, 
and the bodies of the saints which slept arose and came 
out of the grave, and went into the Holy City and ap- 
peared unto many. When Jesus died the graves were 
opened, showing that in his death, the power of death 
was broken. 



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